Charles Emile Jacque

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Self-portrait, 1846
Shepherdess with herd
Sheep in the stable

Charles Emile Jacque (* 23. May 1813 in Paris , France ; † 7. May 1894 ) was a French painter and graphic artist of the Barbizon school .

Life

In the Jacque family of painters, he is the father of Emile, Frederic and brother of Leon. The artist was a French animal (sheep) and landscape painter and versatile graphic artist from the Barbizon School. He worked in the graphic field as an eraser, copperplate engraver, lithographer, wood cutter, map engraver. His main achievement is in his etchings . From around 1850 he worked with zincography and used it for his illustrations.

At the age of 17 he learned to engrave maps, from 1830 he served as a soldier for several years. He besieged the city of Antwerp with where his first landscape in drypoint emerged, as well as humorous and military scenes. In 1835, after his discharge from military service, he traveled to Burgundy, where his family lived, and only then did he self-taught to translate impressions of nature into painting. Well, through many observations with flocks of sheep on farms and in butcher shops, he began painting animals (pets).

After long study visits in 1848 with his friends Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) and Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) in Barbizon . In 1839 he established his first relationships with Best, the publisher of the Pittoresque magazine. In 1836 he went to London , and in 1838, after an absence of 20 months, returned to Paris . In the unsophisticated representation of nature, which was new at the time, he adored the Dutch etchers of the 17th century. But as early as 1870, art connoisseurs, like the German animal painter Carl Jutz (1838–1916), discovered his outstanding depictions of animals.

Works

Herd of mutton in a landscape, Luxembourg in Louvre Paris; Herd of cattle at the drinking trough, Angers; Chicken Farm, Beziers; Herd of mutton in the forest, Chalon-sur-Saone, Marseilles ; In the sheepfold in 1853, Hamburg Kunsthalle; Landscape with Sheep with Shepherd in Storm, Karlsruhe auction 1869; Farm, auction Vienna 1872, sheepfold with sheep in front of a crib, private collection Munich ; Landscape with Sheep, Berlin auction 1872.-Hühnerhof, Vienna auction 1876; Sheep in the stable, Reichenberg, Freih. v. Liebig collection; Flock of sheep in the oak forest, Stockholm National Museum ; 4 Sheep Pictures, Metropolitan Museum New York ; Sheep, auction Vienna 1877; The Storm, JSForbes London; Inside of a poultry farm, JHL de Haas Brussels . There are numerous other sheep pictures, as well as a very large number of etchings. Quinze eaux-fortes was even presented at the Paris World's Fair in 1867 ; L Òrage; La Bergerie.

Exhibitions

Paris Salon 1861, Paris World Exhibition 1867, Vienna, Munich, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Städtische Kupferstichsammlung Mainz , Museum Goch 23 November 2014 to 22 February 2015.

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SURNAME Jacque, Charles Emile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacque, Charles Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and graphic artist of the Barbizon school
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1894
Place of death Paris